CustomFreak Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 here another projekt from me 1992 Lincoln MKIII, ex Prostreet Kit. converted into a street car with the 1993 ford thunderbird kit from monogramm. all parts must be make fit and then you have a fine street car
george 53 Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 Custom, I did the SAME thing,the SAME way! but I hadta move the rear wheelwells back.Did you? Wasn't that hard, an now I got me one too!Best thing next ta buyin an old AAM resin kit! AND it's 25th scale!!! GREAT Conversion!!!
MonoPed Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 Nice conversion! BTW, it's MkVII, not MkIII
charlie8575 Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 I've toyed with doing this for a factory-stock model. I'll watch your progress for ideas. Charlie Larkin
Greg Cullinan Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 Looking good. I'm surprised at the lack of 90s Lincolns in plastic.They were ahead of there time with luxury sports coupes.I've had a few Mark viii's so I guess I'm biased.
roadhawg Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 Considering what you have there, its looking great! The problem with the pro-street body, however, is that everything from the rear edge of the doors on back is not exactly proportioned right....I think they tooled the body to fit an existing pro-street chassis. Like George said, the rear wheelwells are too far forward, the quarter windows are too short....the entire quarter panel needs to be be lengthened here and there. Still, I've seen street conversions like this done, and they DO end up looking good. Good luck! I'll keep an eye on this for sure!
Rick Schmidt Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 So far so good gonna watch this conversion. Do wanna note tho the Bird you used appears to be an 87 93 Birds were a different bodystyle. Not bustin on ya just wanna make sure folks takin notes don't get a bad surprise
whale392 Posted December 30, 2009 Posted December 30, 2009 Rick, you talking about the 89-up MN12 platform Thunderbird (because the Thunderbird shared the Fox platform from 83-88) as a donor? I think this is looking killer, and any info on the kits used to build this would be greatly appreciated! Long live the FOXes, no matter what body sat on top of them (Mustang/Capri, LTD/lx, TBird, Cougar, Lincoln MKVII, Grenada/Zephyr)!
James Flowers Posted December 31, 2009 Posted December 31, 2009 I bought one of those with the same thing in mind. Did you change the body in the quarter panels and rear windows? I like what I see so far.
Chuck Most Posted January 4, 2010 Posted January 4, 2010 I think Revell-o-gram really screwed the pooch by not making a stock version of the MkVII kit. Way to show 'em! And a '92 is a Mk VII... the Mk VIII designation didn't come along until the '93 redesign.
sfhess Posted January 5, 2010 Posted January 5, 2010 (edited) Nice work on that Mark VII conversion!! Thunderbird/Cougar were on the Fox platform from 1980-88. Remember the Box Birds? Mark VII was on the Fox platform. Mark VIII was on the MN-12 platform. Edited January 5, 2010 by sfhess
Rick Schmidt Posted January 5, 2010 Posted January 5, 2010 Still waitin for progress here Got a great start I like those box Birds Don't care what anyone says anything Fox was a beautiful thing
whale392 Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 You are correct....I did forget the big 'box' Fox-birds of 80-82.
Rob Hall Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 You are correct....I did forget the big 'box' Fox-birds of 80-82. I remember those..my Mom had an '80 (after a '77)...traded it on an '85, then an '89. My folks had a series of Town Cars, T-Birds, and Mustangs when I was growing up.
charlie8575 Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 Nice work on that Mark VII conversion!! Thunderbird/Cougar were on the Fox platform from 1980-88. Remember the Box Birds? Mark VII was on the Fox platform. Mark VIII was on the MN-12 platform. Wow, talk about a rare car! I think I've seen maybe 3-4 of them when I was old enough to know (or care about) what I was looking at. Hmm...that'd make a cool resin. Charlie Larkin
CustomFreak Posted January 6, 2010 Author Posted January 6, 2010 hello, no new progress on here, got a few other projekts in the making and comming along very slowly
kully55 Posted January 6, 2010 Posted January 6, 2010 Nice work on that Mark VII conversion!! Thunderbird/Cougar were on the Fox platform from 1980-88. Remember the Box Birds? Mark VII was on the Fox platform. Mark VIII was on the MN-12 platform. I still have a 1980 thunderbird. Bought in 1992. Its been sitting in dry storage since 1999. To bad they don't have a stock version or a resin body of those cars. All I can find are the 1982 nascar version, which has the wheel wells cut out and other changes to the body.
James Flowers Posted January 7, 2010 Posted January 7, 2010 When we going to see some updates on this one?
CustomFreak Posted January 8, 2010 Author Posted January 8, 2010 When we going to see some updates on this one? i must cut out the trunk and redo the inner trunk with styrene then i can filler first time yester day i spray every part of engine and undercarriage parts shiny black, then i will use alclad so everything wil be chromed out i decieded to build it as a lowrider clean and simple. Greets Frank
CustomFreak Posted January 9, 2010 Author Posted January 9, 2010 today i found some time to work on the lincoln cut the trunk out and made inner trunk of styrene stripes and hinge the hood customlike now its ready to primer.
CustomFreak Posted January 10, 2010 Author Posted January 10, 2010 some of you ask what kits i used here a pic
Chuck Most Posted January 19, 2010 Posted January 19, 2010 Looking great so far! This ought to be a real honey when it's finished!
Space Cowboy Posted January 22, 2010 Posted January 22, 2010 I was waiting for someone to do this. You are doing a great job keep those pics coming.
whale392 Posted January 22, 2010 Posted January 22, 2010 I just happen to have several of the re-issues of the TurboCoupe kit (even pirated the engine from one for my SVO project).....looks like I need to ferret out a Lincoln kit now! Your build looks great, and has given me yet more modeling ideas (bad but good at the same time!). Keep it up; my eye is on this build!
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